Lectures on Imagination

Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another, and the three-volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago Press. George H. Taylor is professor emeritus of law at the University of Pittsburgh. Robert D. Sweeney (1929–2016) was the Don Shula Chair in Philosophy at John Carroll University. Jean-Luc Amalric teaches at the CPGE Arts and Design in Nîmes and the Research Center for Arts and Language (CRAL), EHESS, Paris. Patrick F. Crosby (1948–2020) was an independent Ricoeur scholar

"By its depth and the breadth of the path traveled, [Lectures on Imagination] stands out as nothing less than a centerpiece of the corpus."

• Editor’s Acknowledgments by George H. TaylorEditor’s Introduction by George H. Taylor1 Introductory LecturePart One: Classical Readings2 Aristotle3 Pascal and Spinoza4 Hume5 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason6 Kant: Critique of JudgmentPart Two: Modern Readings7 Ryle8 Ryle (2) and Price9 Wittgenstein10 Husserl: Logical Investigations11 Husserl: Ideas12 Sartre (1)13 Sartre (2)14. Sartre (3)Part Three: Imagination as Fiction15 Fiction (1): Introduction16 Fiction (2): Metaphor17 Fiction (3): Painting18 Fiction (4): Models19 Fiction (5): Poetic LanguageNotesBibliographyIndex